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The Three Americas (CD)

By: Eliane Elias (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Three Americas (CD) Album By Eliane Elias (Artist)
1   Up Dawn, An
2   Time Is Now, The
3   Caipora
4   Chorango
5   Chega De Saudade
6   Crystal And Lace
7   Brigas Nunca Mais
8   Introduction To Guarani
9   O Guarani
10   Jungle Journey
11   Missing You
12   Jumping Fox
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (7/18/97, p.85) - "Brazilian-born jazz pianist Elias has lived in the States for nearly half her 37 years, and her impressive new album is a kind of homecoming, nodding to the Americas North, South, and Central. The concept flies..." - Rating: B+
Down Beat (8/97, p.54) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "The dominant America that emerges on THE THREE AMERICAS is Latin...with Elias as our guide....this is an exciting blend of the exotic and the prosaic....her voice...conveys a pleasant and rather seductive sensuality..."
JazzTimes (10/97, p.90) - "...Elias melds influences of Central and South America to North American jazz. Elias is a powerful lyrical pianist....she artfully merges and shifts among various Brazilian beats, Cuban rhythms, Argentinean nuevo tango, and straight ahead jazz..."

Title Note

Personnel: Eliane Elias (vocals, piano); Manolo Badrena (vocals, percussion); Amanda Elias Brecker (vocals); Dave Valentin (flute); Gil Goldstein (accordion); Mark Feldman (violin); Oscar Castro-Neves (guitar); Marc Johnson (bass, background vocals); Satoshi Takeishi (drums, background vocals); Cafe (percussion, background vocals).

Principally recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York.

THE THREE AMERICAS are apparently seen most elegantly and swingingly from Brazil, as this album by Brazilian pianist Elias combines jazz, Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian music in a natural and uplifting way. The space and colors of Brazilian music leave room for Elias and her band to blend other traditions into the recipe, transmuting the recipe into something fresh. Spain is evoked in "Chorango" with the addition of violin and accordion; Dave Valentin's flute gracefully takes over, doubling the piano melodies, on "Crystal and Lace;" on "Caipora," Cuban basslines support Cafe's Brazilian percussion. All this is combined with the modern jazz forms of Elias' compositions. She's a talented singer too, crooning in a melismatic Brazilian style on the opening cut "An Up Dawn" and offering a fresh interpretation of Jobim's "Brigas Nunca Mais".

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